1. By: Rachel Herman 7B

2. Big Ben is the main four-faced clock in London. 61 meters of the clock tower are brickwork with sand coloured Anston limestone cladding. The rest of the tower is a framed spire of cast iron. The tower is based on a 15- meter square raft. The raft is made of 3 meters of concrete. It goes 4 meters below the ground. The four clock faces are 55 meters on top of the ground. Inside the tower is 4,650 cubic meters. Big Ben is a combination structure. It is mostly a shell structure but is also solid because Big Ben has a couple rooms in it, which makes it partly solid. At one point Big Ben was the tallest four-faced clock in the world. Answer:

3. The purpose of Big Ben is that at each hour you will here the bell chime. It has four faces so you can most likely see the time whenever you choose too. So pretty much Big Ben’s main purpose is to be the clock that mostly everyone in London relies on.